AIBU to question the media response to the Belfast attack?

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Why are the media being silent on the Belfast attack?

Is the open borders narrative that important to them that they feel the need to ignore one of the most horrific attacks ever seen on a UK street?

I despair for the future of the UK. It’s grim.

I'm glad for you.

His race had nothing to do with the policeman's actions.
The technique is an approved restraining technique. The fact is people like GF and their supporters are prone to violence and disorder which the left wing MSM make money from so the facts were obscured to push an agenda.
Tony Timpa was killed in the same circumstances and there was no protest, criminal damage or extortion by greviance peddlers. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Tony_Timpa

Do they have teeth though? And are/are not drunk?

Absolutely!

And that absolutely should also be reported and protested and is another example of police brutality this time against someone with a mental health disability.

Why do people think it is their right to know every fact immediately? Let the families know. I am fine to wait a few hours until the facts emerge. I would rather have the news from somewhere vaguely reputable than from idiots on MN and Twitter making assumptions.

The desperate people at the start of this thread said that a ‘Somali’ man had ‘murdered’ a ‘teenager’. All wrong. Ffs.

Of course those murders are horrific but the perpetrators would be known to the victims.

I think what is awful about the latest attack is it's a random, horrific attack on a member of the public.

It's deplorable.

I’m NI born and bred and this also wasn’t/isn’t the norm I recognise.

Do you know they didn't know each other?

Maybe because I'm a culchie. Or because working class is a stretch and we grew up on benefits in a brutally poor area with serious secterian divides. Who knows.

Ridiculous. They can't win in your eyes.

Don't report it - they're keeping it secret.
Report it - they're only reporting because we made them!

I would be very surprised if they did.

Yeah OP, don't you dare think you can talk about out of control immigration. The lefties are having none of it.

Why is that? What if it came out that the victim did something terrible to the perpetrator (I've watched the video I also think it's unlikely, it's chilling, don't watch it I wish I hadn't) the guy looks incredibly chillingly calm not like someone addressing a vendetta.

The attack is horrible, the damage done is horrible, it's chilling and terrifying but it's also not being under reported. That's my entire beef with the premise of this thread. It's based on a cover up that isn't happening and a delay in deciding if a northern Irish assault is newsworthy for the rest of the UK is normal.

So a class issue, not a NI/ cultural issue? You do get more dv in areas of poverty whether you're in Birmingham or Belfast this is not new information.

No idea why you keep trying to persuade us that everyone in NI is a violent nutter so why on earth are we focusing on this one bloke gouging eyes out and trying to behead.

And when they aren’t?
Many violent and sexual crimes are committed by white British men. Yes, this one, and others used to wind up communities to riot (how does that help?) is an immigrant. These are publicised so it seems like all crimes are committed by immigrants. They aren’t. But when it’s not - like the train stabbing for example - it all goes quiet and you move on to the next thing to get outraged about. On threads abput that attack everyone was saying it would be a refugee. It wasn’t.

'The attack is horrible, the damage done is horrible, it's chilling and terrifying but it's also not being under reported'

<sighs>

Not now. Initially when this thread was started it was hardly mentioned on the news.

No she didn’t say she wanted it kept quiet! She said she didn’t think endless threads speculating every time were helpful. That’s not the same as keeping it quiet ffs.

AIBU to question the number of Reform bots starting threads on Mumsnet just now?

It absolutely isn't that.

It's that I've witnessed terrible things in northern ireland that never made it to mainstream media.

The men protesting for 'are women' on the streets of Belfast often have domestic abuse convictions.

The point of mentioning the violent crimes is to point out that these are awful crimes not reported uk wide at all. So a 8-12 hour delay overnight in picking up a violent attempted murder story isn't some big conspiracy.

The only reason the assault IS being reported is because it involves a presumed immigrant.
.do you see my point at all. Many bad things are done by many bad people in northern ireland the bbc gives no s**ts. This they DO care about. That's my entire point.

If you think the BbC report sympathetically on the current government then I don’t know what to say…

🥱 in the absence of debate, call posters Reform bots. Is this your raison d'etre for posting because it's not the first time you've posted this predictable stuff.

Because perpetrator arrested & media can’t report fully due to legal proceedings

Had it happened in North Down it’d be MORE likely the victim was English TBH.